Table 1. Summary of studies of the neurobiological effects of green coffee bean extract (GCBE), chlorogenic acids (CGA)1), and 5-O-caffeoylquinic acid (5-CQA) in vivo

Material Doses2) Duration (d) Model3) Subject4) (sex) Effects Targets5) References
Clinical trials
 CGA 1 g (p.o.) 84 Mild cognitive impairment Human (♂♀) ↑Cognition (Ochiai et al., 2019)
300 mg (p.o.) 112 Healthy, middle and elderly population Human (♂) ↑Cognition ↑ApoA1↑TTR (Saitou et al., 2018)
330 mg (p.o.) 168 Healthy elderly population Human (♂♀) ↑Cognition ↓Aβ42/Aβ40 (Kato et al., 2018)
Pre-clinical trials
 GCBE 100 mg/kg b.w. (p.o.) (67% CGA) 28 Cortical injury induced by high-fat diet and streptozotocin Wistar rats (♂) ↑Neurotransmitters↓Apoptosis↓Inflammation↓Oxidative stress ↑Bcl2↑Cat↑GPx↑GSH↑SOD↓Bax↓Caspase 3↓IL-1β↓iNOS↓TNF-α (Al-Brakati et al., 2020)
1% diet(48% CGA) 126 Alzheimer’s disease APP/PS2 mice (♂) ↑Cognition ↓TTR↓APP↓Aβ plaques (Ishida et al., 2020b)
40 mg/kg b.w. (p.o.) (50% CGA) 154 Fructose-inducedAlzheimer’s disease Wistar rats (♂) ↑Cognition ↓Akt↓PI3K↓GSK3β↓p-IRS Ser307↓p-Tau (Mohamed et al., 2020)
80 mg/kg b.w. (p.o.) (45% CGA) 140 Brain insulin resistance induced by high-fat diet C57B6SJL mice (♀) Gene expression changes in the brain 604 genes, which some are involved in glucose, lipid, insulin and redox signaling pathways (Ho et al., 2012)
5-CQA 0.8% diet 147 Alzheimer’s disease APP/PS2 mice (♂) ↑Cognition↓Aβ plaques ↑AQP4↑LRP-1 (Ishida et al., 2020a)
100 mg/kg b.w. (p.o.) 24 MPTP-inducedParkinson’s disease Swiss mice (♂) ↑Locomotor behavior↓Apoptosis↓Neurodegeneration↓Oxidative stress↓Inflammation ↑Bcl-2↑Cat↑IL-10↑p-Akt↑p-ERK1/2↑p-GSK3β↟SOD↓Bax↓IL-1β↓iNOS↓NF-κB↓TNFα (Singh et al., 2018, 2020)
60 mg/kg b.w. (i.p.) 7 6-OHDA-inducedParkinson’s disease Sprague-Dawley rats (♂) ↑Locomotor behavior↓Oxidative stress ↑Bcl-2↑GPx↑SOD↓Bax (Shan et al., 2019)
CGA extracted from green coffee beans.
b.w., body weight; i.p., intraperitoneally; p.o., per oral.
6-OHDA, 6-hydroxydopamine; MPTP,1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydopyridine.
APP, amyloid-β precursor protein; PS2, presenilin 2.
Aβ, amyloid-β proteins; Akt, protein kinase B; Apo, apolipoprotein; AQP, aquaporin; Bax, Bcl-2-associated X; Bcl, B-cell lymphoma; BDNF, brain derived natriuretic factor; Cat, catalase; ERK, extracellular signal-regulated kinase; GSK3β, glycogen synthase kinase-3β; GPx, glutathione peroxidase; GSH, reduced glutathione; IL, interleukin; iNOS, inducible nitric oxide synthase; IRS, insulin receptor substrate; LPR, low-density lipoprotein receptor; NF-κB, nuclear factor kappa B; p, phosphorylated; PI3K, phosphoinositol-3 kinase; Ser, serine; SOD, superoxide dismutase; TNF, tumor necrosis factor; TTR, transthyretin.